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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-13

Ed McGeehee. an Ashland resi-
denter, is In the city.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09

found some time to
devote TO politics.
serving two terms
in the Massachu-
sets Legislature
He served four
years during the
civil war, and upon
his return from the
south was appoint
ed boarding officer
a t t he port of
Gloucester This
position he held for
three years, and
was then appointed
-n-.G- 49,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09
HOUSE BOATS.
Summer Residences That Are Beina
Adopted About Boston.

Summer Residences That Are Being
Adopted About Boston.
Especial Correspondence )
BosToN, Feb 2s.-You never lived in a
house boat | supposed Few people in America
have. But house boating is getting to be
popular in some parts Of the country, and in
China, where there isn't nearly enough ground
for people to build houses to live lii, people
live in house boats, just because they can't
find any other place.
House boating has been practiced in Eng
and fer a considerable period, but always as
a means of recreation-of passing the summer
heats pleasantly. Of course, house boats in
England are owned by the wealthy, or at
least the well to do, exclusively. They often
cost a great deal of money, and it is not at
Ill unusual to run across one of these craftthat
has cost as much or more to build as it would
to build a yacht of equal size. A recent
writer, speaking of the house boat in Eng
land, said:
"Journeying, for instance. up the Thames,
there are to be seen not q few of the house
boats In their ideal capacity. On the shores
OF many Of the beautiful country seats stu
ated along its banks are to be seen house
boats Of every describable build. These are
in many, perhaps the majority of instances,
used during the summer as dwellings by
their owners, who seem to prefer the Be-
herman freedom and the healthfulness
of water life to the constraints and ills Of
the shore. Many of these boats nave
their own steam launches, and are towed by
them wherever their owners desire, while
others, for change of location, are dependent
on outside aid from either steam or horses.
A favorite method with many house boat
owners is to proceed in the early spring to the
head of some navigable and picturesque
stream, and during the summer to slowly
drift down with the current, stopping from
time to time on the way until perhaps the
close of the season finds them at the chosen
place for wintering.n
The horse boats of the Nile are called da-
habeat,s, and in them the travellers of the
region! 1--we. They are long, wide and shall
low, end perhaps twolfirds of the length is
devoted to state rooms and domestic accom-
modations, while the rest is given up to the
crow. They are propelled by huge oars and
clumsy sails, but the latter cannot be used
unless the wind is exactly astern.
The latest contract taken by house boat en-
thusiests is to convert Americans who delight
in yaehting to house bosting, and SO con-
tidenS are sonse of the Boston house boat adj
yocates that they rave gone into the bust
ness of building them, trusting to. their per-
~suasive powers for customera House boats
cost from $500 TO $4,000 apiece.
HENRY HAyERIING.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09

rotary Bayard and Minister West.
w. A. Wilcox is manager of the American
fish bureau. He was born at Saratoga
Springs, N. Y, passed his boyhood days in
Vermont, and for several years was engaged
In busine at Memphis, Tenn, and st. Louis,
Mo, During a portion of this time he was
engaged in steamboating on the Mississippi
and other western rivers. He went to Boston
In 1879, and got thea head of the Boston fish
bureau, with which Institution he remained
for twelve years. In 1880 he was called to
census work on the fisheries as assistant
United States fish commissioner, and covered
most of the territory from Portland, Me-, to
New Haven, Conn. He removed to Worces-
ter in 1885, and established the American fish
bureau.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09

IHcph DSD DhtlsDs 49,
The total product of the inshore mackerel
fishery during 1885 did not exceed 8 per cent.
of the entire catch, and of this 8 per cent. less
han a third was taken inside the three mile
Limit.
The Fisheries convention, which was held
in Gloucester, Mass, last week, had to do not
only with the mackerel and cod fisheries, but
with whaling and all OTHER sea fishing. The
American Fishery union was formed at
Gloucester in 1884. Its present president is
George Steele, Of Gloucester, and its secre-
tary William H. Jordan.
The Hon. Spencer F. Baird, since 1871
United States commissioner of fish and fish
cries, an unsalaried office, was also present.
He is very popular. with fishermen. Pro-
| fessor Baird was born in Reading, Pa, Feb.
3, 1923. As q boy he studied at the Quaker
boarding school, kept by DR.. McGraw, at
Port Deposit, Md, and at the grammar school
at Reading. He entered Dickinson college in
1886, and was graduated at the age of IL.
For some time after his graduation he
devoted himself to studies in general natural
history, in the prosecution of which he
took long pedestrian excursions, observing
! animals and plants and collecting specimens.
His cabinet of natural history specimens
a few years later became the nucleus of the
Smithsonian institution museum. He read
medicine with DR.. Middleton Goldsmith, and
attended lectures at the College Of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York, in 1s4a. Three
years later he was made professor of natural
history in Dickinson college. In 1S49 he
translated and edited the text for the "Icono-
graphic Encyclopaedia. the English version
| Of aHeck's Bilder Atlas" In 1850 he was
made assistant secretary Of the Smithsonian
institution, entering upon his life work at
the age Of 81. Between that time and
1874 he found a N opportunity, notwith-
standing the arduous duties attendant upon
his position, 20 publish six works upon North
American natural history. From 1870 to
1878 he was scientific editor of Harper 6
Brothers periodicals. His life has been sin
gular in its devotion to science. This is espe-
cially true from the fact that his work is
mostly a labor of love.
Captain r. j. Babson was born Feb. IA,
1923. In his early life he was a builder, but
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09
MEN WHO CATCH FISH.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THEIR TRADE IN
NEW ENGLAND.

a-sNET
Portraits and Sketches of Three Men
who Work Earnestly In behalf of the
Trade-Professor Spencer f. Baird,
Capt. #. j. Babson and w. A. Wilcox.
The history of the fisheries of North Amer
lea is one of peculiar intetest. AS early as
1904 the Normans n Biscayans knew of the
existence of the Newfoundland fisheries, and
the B~iscayans haves a tradition that New
%foundland was visited, by their countrymen
prior to the time of Columbus, though this is
hardly probable.
The mackerel fishing grounds, lying off the
eastern coast of the United States. comprise
$4,000 geographical square miles. The total
area commonly resorteG to by American fish
ermen does not exceed 800 square miles. 1t
will be seen that the inshore area is but a
very small percentage of the total area, and
the number of fish that may be taken thereis O
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09
Bucssen's Arm.ea satre

The hsst Salve in the Rorid Tor Outs,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Sal, iiheum, Fever
sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Ghiibiaia
Corna, aud all Skin Bruptions. auh pos
itively cures Piles, OK no pay required. II
IL guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, o.
money refunded. Price Is cente pc, boz,
For Sale by the Excelsior Drug Store O
Purdy d Brechs.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09
BENJAMIN P. HUTCHINSON,
A Strange Character of Chicago Who Is
Called "Old Hutch"

CHICAGO, Feb. ga queer character,
who is well known in the west, is "Old
Hutch" He is one of the quaintest, rug
gedest, most successful and richest of
operators on the Chicago board of trade.
lie is worth a round 100000 if he
is worth a cent, and to look at him
you'd think i'm. the driver of an express
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09

pleasant to the taste, and is the preecrip
ticn of one of the Oldest nurses and
best female physicians in the United
States, and il for sale by oil druggists
throughout the world. Price twen.s-
five cents q bottle.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09

wagon or m
thing of the sort.
His name is Benja-
min P. Hutchinson,
nobody ever
thinks of calling
him anything but
"Old Eutch." He
is not SO very old,
either, only 60, but
he has a very old
head. he looks
young, is nearly as
tall as Long Holm
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09

much smaller per-
centage owing to
the change in meth
dds of fishing adopt
ed OF late years.
The fishermen Of
to-day do not fish
with hook and line,
but with great
purse seines. The
larger portion Of
the inshore area is
too shallow, and
the bottom is too
rough to permit the
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09

years. Upon the
Inauguration Ut the
present admins
tration he visited
Washington at the
request of Secre-
tary Bayard and
strongly recon-
mended the Ameri-
car fisheries com
mission. Last win
ter he represented
the Fishery union
in Washington and
successfully oppos-
ed the reciprocity
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09
Positive Written Guarantee
MARRIAGE GUIDE

EGO Pages, Fine EiafeS.
Elegant cloth and gilt binding. Sealed for soc
in money or postage stamps. Over fifty wonder
full pen pictures, showing who may marry. who
not, why: Proper age to marry, Who marry first.
should marry. How life and happiness may be
increased. Those married or about to marry
should read il: of interest and value to every
thinking man and woman. Popular edition.
paper cover, 25c. Address DIR W~HEITTIER
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09

Since Mr.. Gladstone has chopped down SO
many trees it is now remarked that he ought
to plant some.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-12-25

graduates Of vsssar, founded In 1895, owe
one-third. or 2so. have become wives; while
Of the 554 from Smith and Wellesley Colleges,
founded In 1875, the married are only II. or
less than one-seventh. Yet 1t seems that
Wellesley takes particular pains to encourage
happy marriages and to SGT q good example
before It's spinster graduates by welcoming
its "eons-in-law" to its festivals. Perhaps
tho poor results Of it's labors In this direction
are duo to tho lack Of matrimonial oppor-
tunities in Massachusetts,, for Of the 81 grad
yates from Syracuse University, founded
only o u years earlier, as many as 60 are
among the married.
OF all the graduates engaged In
tive work, 1t will have been seen, seven
eighths are teachers, 80 that 1t may be said
generally that, 30 far as preparing them for
~self-support is concerned, college training
for women is almost wholly to fit them for
teaching. A college diploma may be Of use
as a recommendation for q woman seeking a
situation as a teacher. but 1t can hardly DO
serviceable to her In any other employment.
The occupations other than teaching pur-
sued by the 1873 graduates out Of a total Of
2,619 are many and various. OF nine from
California University. the majority are en-
gagged In fruit raising and farming, for which
their college training was perhaps hardly
necessary. Some Of the seven from Kansas
University are classed as ranch owners.
Cornells ten are chiefly in the medical profess
sion and In literature. The other professions
and occupations Of graduates are the law,
journalism. music, pictorial art, architecture,
%elocution. printing, type writing. and trade,
while vassar has added to the force Of pro-
f~essional philsnthropists, a dangerous body,
and Wellesley to the number Of religious
missionaries.
More than one-ffth of the 2,619 graduates,
as we have shown, are earning nothing sat
all. They are probably more or less hopeful
candidates for marriage. About one-third Of
the graduates Of vsssar, Smith, and Welles-
ley, all distinctively women's colleges, are
thus unemployed, while the proportion from
Oberlin, where the sexes are educated to-
gether, Is only a little more than one-tenth.
The inference Is that q large part Of the girls
who 60 to the colleges for women especially
what they suppose will be a desirable educa-
ton, without regard to any practical advan-
tages to be secured from 1t.
The statistics, as q whole, donot show that,
80 far as making q living Is concerned. COL
lege education has proved Of any great SER
vice to women, for 1t is not necessary to fit
them for the places as teachers which they
are most likely to get, and for which they are
moro especially adapted. It seems, too. to
diminish their chances Of marrying, since
nearly two-thirds Of all these graduates are
still spinsters.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-12-25
CHINESE HAZE TWEL TE HOLIDAYA.
Mr.. wsng Remembers Eleven. sf whic
Moon Cake Day 10 Chief

Mr.. wsng Renembors Eleven. Of which
Neon Cake Day IL Chief
In place of the five great holidays that we
have in America the Cinnamon have Just
twelve. one in each and every month, and they
are very expressive and interesting. Hero
they are:
Shin Nean-The New Year.
Mes Yueh Nee-"God's Essension Day" (22d Of
San Yueh san-Third day of third moon; the
Opening OF the Spring Day.
81 Yush PP9tEEiGhthn Of the fourth moon
,,Wo Yueh Dan-Colors Day: the 9th Of tho
10 Yueh Lo-Joss's Sightseeing Day; 9Th
OF sixth moon.
I'll Yueh Ti-Sendine Provisions and Servants
to the Dead Day 9TH Of seventh moon. :. Il.
Pot, Yueh Shi Wo-Moon Cake Day; 18th OF
.Kien ,Yueh Kien-Beginning Of the Winter
Day; 9th Of ninth moon.
She Yueh Yi-Joss Soup Day; 18th Of eleventh
.shi. NJ, Yuoh Mi-"Ths Gods Going Home
Day" I'd Of the twelfth moon.
or all these holiday. excepting the New
the Opening Of the Spring Day,
These holidays virtually take the place OF
Sundays. WoNo CHIN Foo.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-12-25
Among the budding flocks OF sheep
Judean shepherds vigils beep;
Thar mantlaa updarnaath than aprAa

Among the budding locks Of sheep
Judean shepherds vigils keep;
Their mantles underneath them spread,
The green turf for their soft-strown bed:
They watch their fiocks with sleepy eyes.
Or gaze into the silent skies.
But the East grew white with Q glorious flame,
And the air was thrilled with a glorious Name;
And each mans heart was q coal Of FIRE
That glowsd with tho hymn OF the heavenly
choir.
The crib is full OF the garnered corn,
The kline are lowing in the stall.
Whence comes the cry OF q babe new born.
A peasants son, yet the king Of all
Though the hoary lords from the sunrise lands
Brought gifts and incense and myrrh to his
hands,
For him no palace nor purple throne,
But the contrite heart he will call his OWE.
The weary spirit, the life outworn.
All souls that suffer, all hearts forlorn,
Shall be as children with the carpenters child
this day In Bethlehem born.
Through wreck-girt gulf, through dangerous
strait.
Men drive before tho winds OF fate.
And surges soethe around them, and skies are
dark above;
Yet the spent sailors kneel
Safe on the storm-shrsd keel,
And the Star Of Bethlehem CLEANS white DER
the Wines Of the blessed Dove,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-12-25
DR.. John Hall and Santa Claus.

We observe this surprising statement in
the columns Of our esteemed contemporary,
the Washington Critic:
"Dr. Jonr HALL Of New York d attempting to destroy
the santa Claus myth"
Let US hope that the Critic has been misin-
formed, and that DR.. HALL is not really GO
ing in for the destruction OF the Santa Claus
myth, even If he doesn't sympathize with 1t.
No one should be In u hurry about destroy
ing old superstitions that are at once
harmless and delightful. In these days.
when We are confronted with the trsmon-
dous nAtaralism OF DAzWM. and when the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-12-25

made manifest In all His actions from Nana-
reth to Calvary, without knowing and feel
Ing that they are all totally incompatible
with the wars that are almost cesseless
among the Christian nations Of Europe,
which wagc battle under tho symbol Of the
cross and use His namst to eanotify the fields
OF carnage.
The Christian Governments Of Europe do
not practise the precepts of the Founder Of
Christianity; they do not give heed to His
i~njunctions; they evidently look upon His
commands rs unworthy Of their observance,
unfit for their guidance, and inapplicable to
the nations over which they hold authority.
Tho fact Is that these Governments are
pagan, not Christian, and arc controlled by
the spirit Of Mars, not Of the Prince Of Peace.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-12-25
The Holiday Trade.

Inc enormous extent OF the old trade
this year was indicated by the circumstance
that last week the elevated roads carried
more passengers than over before in their
history. During the last four days especially
the cara have been crowded from morning
to evening, and yesterday the rush seemed
to be greater than at any time.
This great trade shows, too, that the aver
age earnings Of the people are good, and
that the demand for labor Is unusually large,
for Of the whole number Of those making
holiday purchases nine in ten are men
and women In moderate circumstances,
and the vast majority live on daily wages or
on salaries. The most important holiday
trade is not that in articles demanded by the
rich and luxurious, to whom Christmas does
not have the meaning it has to their poorer
neighbors, and who, out of their abundance.
are less free In giving than the others out Of
their comparatively small store. The money
expended at tho great jewellers Ia a very in
significant part Of the whole amount laid out
on holiday gifts. The dealers In goods within
the means Of people Of very moderate in
comes take In far more, for, though in each
case the purchases may DO comparatively
small, the aggregate expenditure is vastly
greater because the buyers are many times
moro numerous.
This year, too, trade Is Increased because
Of low prices, for, Of course, the cheaper the
article the larger Is the number of people
who can buy 1t, and the less the cost of the
necessaries of life the more money there Is
left to be expended on the luxuries Of a sea-
son Of festivity like this. Despite our
,o,,a6-oh,,enA koStH <hara L. ~o plano t. %Lx
world where clothing can now be purchased
cheaper than in New York, and the cost Of
food is less hero than abroad, 80 that, with
higher wages, the New York ~workingman
is q much larger consumer thar the
wage Garner Of London. and of a much
greater variety Of articles. 1t therefore will
be hard to convert him to the doctrine OF FREQ
trade and to make him believe that he will
be better of under a system Of taxation bor-
rowed from England. There is no use In
telling him that he suffers from extortion
because Of the tariff on woollen goods, for he
sees for himself the remarkable ~cheapness Of
the goods at the clothing stores. He knows,
too. that his necessary expenditures for
clothing are only q small part Of his total
expenditures.
The crowded elevated trains and the over
flowing shops on Saturday showed that
holiday purchasing was kept up to the last
hour, but it was the markets especially that
proated by the extraordinary trade. WASH
ington Market. more particularly, did an
enormous business, to satisfy the demands
Of which temporary stands were erected In
the adjoining streets. Every preparation,
therefore, has been made to make this
Christmas remarkable In It's general FEAST
ing and merriment.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-12-25

Merry Christmas to Mayor HEWITT and
every baby to whom he gave a rattle, and may
no dinner take place at which CHAuNcEY De-
PEW shall mako a Republican statement for
which his Honor cannot find q crushing Demo-
cratic answer.
And to the greatest DEPEw on earth the sea-
sons greeting, with the hope that he may tri-
umph over all competitors In politics. as he
did over JAMES G. BLAINE In a social way at
Homburg.
The top Of the season to JOE CHAMBERLAIN.
but may he return to Torydom wiser han to
think he can develop hero ANYTHING but hatred
Of Englsnd's course toward Ireland.
Tho returns Of the day to JAKE SHARP. and
may he heed his doctors words better than by
merely moving to the country when they
recommend him to lead a different life.
To o L. SULLIVAN. the pile driver Of Bos-
ton, greeting; and may his ~slugging never
grow less.
Peace and good will to BERRY WALL, and
NAV oil the dudes spare time from their
toilets, rs he did, to sdorn their lives with
helpmeets.
Many happy returns Of the day to GRovER
CLEVELAND and the Democratic party. with all
that that implies.
Merry Christmas to all, great and small. red,
white. or black, younR old. married, single.
blind. halt. lame, sound. or sick. and to the
great army OF Sun readers first and most
Of all.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-12-25
Some Points Of Revenue Reform.

No revision OF the tariff can answer the
whole case, which does not abolish ad vaLo-
rem duties and substitute specific. Three
quarters Of the opportunities for Custom
House fraud would be abolished thereby.
Whatever else Is done with the i%nternalrev-
enue system, and however far the reform of
1t may go, whether the tobacco tax Is en-
tirely removed or not. whether the liquor
tax Is brought down to reasonable limits or
not. enc thing Is certain:
As a separate department Of the Treasury
the internal revenue establishment should
30 legislated out Of existence. and tho whole
concern transferred to the Custom House.
These are improvements about which there
ought to be very little controversy; In truth.
there ought to be none.